Improvement in curtain-fixtures



s. & M ARfiABETTA HENRY.

Curtain-Fixtu res.

Patented Dec; 23,1873.

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SAMUEL HENRY AND MARGARETTA HENRY, OF CHENOA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

Specification forming part of Lettcrs Patent No. 145,868, dated December 23, 1873; application filed October 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

,Be it known that we, SAMUEL HENRY and MARGARETTA HENRY, both of Chenoa, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Curtain-Fixture; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view with the ornamental piece removed; and Fig. 3 is a section through line 00 m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote the same parts.

This invention has for its object to provide means for more conveniently and securely attaching curtain-rollers to windows, and also for applying ornamental lace or other curtains to the window inside the rolling curtain. To these ends our invention consists in a peculiar frame or head piece containing the curtainroller adapted to be secured to the windowcasing, to which head-piece an ornamental strip provided with hooked lugs is detachably connected, said strip holding the lace curtains, all of which I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A represents the rollerframe or headpiece, consisting of the brackets a (L in which are the bearings of the roller B, and the long wooden piece a to which the brackets are rigidly attached. The head-piece A is put together with the roller journaled suitably in its brackets, and the whole attached to the window-casing, as shown. A block, D, is attached to the inner side of the bracket (1, near its upper edge, and from the block a flat spring, E, extends downward and bears against the periphery of a metallic flange, F, on one end of the roller B. A similar flange is provided near the flange F, and

between the two the operating cord G is wound. H represents a wooden strip, suita-- bly ornamented, and of sufficient size to cover the head-piece A, and provided on its back side with hooks I, by means of which it is hung 011 the head-piece, as shown. Lace or other ornamental curtains are attached to the strip H.

It will be seen that when the roller is in place in the head-piece there is no liability of its getting out of its bearings, as is the case when separate brackets are employed. The head-piece and roller can be easily attached to the windowcasing, and when once put up the roller is held securely. The spring E, bearing against the disk or flange F, holds the roller by its pressure sufficiently to prevent the curtain from unrolling of its own weight; consequently the latter is held at any point desired. The ornamental attachment H, with the lace curtains, can be readily removed and replaced as occasion requires, and are held securely when in place by the hooks I.

The appearance of the whole arrangement is very ornamental, and its convenience and cheapness are obvious.

We claim as our invention--' The detachable head-piece A, provided with brackets a a block D, spring E, and roller B, in combination with the ornamental strip H, provided with hooks I I, adapted to be at tached to or detached from the head-piece, the whole being arranged, constructed, and operated in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL HENRY. MARGARETTA HENRY. WVitnesses:

T. J. ENLETTE, JAMES F. HARE, J. N. GASOHO, WM. MoULToN. 

